Lap-robe.



PATENTED APR. 9, 1907.

A. H. KINDER LAP ROBE.

Muon-10N FILED H1123.

fue NuRRls PETERS co.. wAsNmqfoN, D. c.

UNITED s'rA'rEs ifarENr oEEieE.

ARTHUR H. KINDER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO L. C. CHASE & CO., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAP-ROBE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application filed February 23, 1904. Serial No. 194,713.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. KINDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Lap-Robes, of which the following description, in connection with the aeeompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel lap-robe so constructed as to receive the hands of a person using the ro'be in order that the hands may be kept warm.

The invention resides in the construction of the muff and its application to a lap-robe.

Figure l shows the outer side of a lap-robe, illustrating' the pocket-holes leading to the muti'. Fig. 2 is anenlarged longitudinal section in the line see Fig. 1; "and Fig. 3, a cross-section through the two layers of material and the muff on the line Fig. 2.

The lap-robe is composed of two layers, as

a t, of any cloth or material usually employed in the manufacture of lap-robes, the edges of the material being preferably inturned, as shown in Fig. 2, and, if desired, va binding c may be added, the whole being united by suitable stitches, as represented in the drawings.;

At the point Where the mu is to be located one thickness of the material will be provided with two slits e e2, said slits being shown as made in the outer layer d of thel material forming the laprobe. The slit is so made that preferably a portion of the material, as at a3, is infolded to leave a 'finished edge. (See Iig. 2.) The portion of the material between the slits is elevated, such elevated portion in the section, Fig. 2, being designated eX, and the edges e of said elevated portion are inturned to make a finish. Preferably pieces of material d to serve as la els have their edges placed to underlie the i olded portions ai* of the uplifted portion ax. I next take preferably some warm, soft, or eecy cloth e, or it might be fur, to constitute the inner side of the mu'fl". On this I lay another layer of fabric f, which may be felt or any desired fabric or wadding, and then preferably I apply to the layer f a layer g of material, which will prevent the passage of air therethrough and preferably the pasn sage of water in ease the lap-robe should become wet, the material for the layer g which is most desirable being india-rubber or india-rubber cloth.

'l'he material of the muti is united in a circular form, and the edges of the materials e fg which lie next the raised portion ax of the material a of the lap-robe are preferably inturned, while said edges which lie next the material b may be left flat to thereby obviate forming ridges or bunches, and portions of this mu so applied to the material of the lap-robe are united thereto by stitches 2 and 3.

The hands may be inserted under the lapels d into the mu'fl shown, and the lapels by overlapping the wrists keep the cold from contacting therewith. The hands may be clasped or put together inside the muil', and ahandkerchief or anything inserted in the muil' may be withdrawn therefrom by either hand.

' Fig. 3 shows the material of the muil' in section on the line and it will be noted that the materials of the muil are folded at their lowerl edge and are united by stitches at the upper end thereof. This figure shows the muil' detached, Fig. 2 showing the manner of its application to the lap-robe. Either side of the lap-robe may be used outermost. as desired. The muil` is concealed within the layers of material comprising the laprobe, and the lap-robe material is itself made a factor of warmth in the production of the mu'lf. yThe lap-robe shown has two mu'ffs, and when the hands are in either muil or hand-hole leading thereto the lap-robe will be prevented from slipping down and off the la yI-Iaving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A lap-robe composed of two layers of material stitched together about their edges, one of said layers having slits in the direction of the length of the robe, the material at the edges of said slits being inturned, muil material interposed between said layers, the opposite edges of the end of the mnif material next the layer thereof that is slitted being infolded while the opposite edges of the mui'f material contacting with the unslitted layer of the muil' material being extended IOO under two of the infolded edges of the slitted l stitched to the opposite edges of both handlayer of material7 the edges of the material holes.

formed by said slits being stitched to the l In testimony whereof I have signed my opposite edges of said mutt material. name to this speoiiieation in the presence of 2. A lapgbe oorlnprising layers of matl two subscribing Witnesses.

rial one o W `oh is s itted to constitute han holes7 a plurality of layers of mu material )ARTHUR H' KINDER' interposed between said layers constituting Vitnesses:

the lap-robe, said mu material being folded GEO. W. GREGORY,

Io on itself, the edges of the muli material being t EDITH M. STODDARD. 

